Hari Sekhon wrote: > Is it better to do: > > message = """This is line1. > This is line2 > This is line3\n""" > > or > > message = "This is line1.\n > message = message + "This is line2\n" > message = message + "This is line3\n" > > > Since the first method does not follow python's clean and easy looking > indentation structure but the second just looks crude and ugly anyway. > > If I indent the first version so the text is lined up to match code > indentation then this comes out in the input and isn't aligned there.
How about message = ("This is line1. " "This is line2 " "This is line3\n") The brackets mean that the lines are automatically treated as continuous, without the need for the ugly '\' continuation character. The opening/closing quotes on each line mean that the strings are contatenated into one long string. Frank Millman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list